When I woke up the first thing I saw was Edward sitting beside me, stroking my hand. "Bella," he smiled and hugged me gently. "Thank goodness you are awake."
I hugged him back. "How long was I asleep?"
"Three days." Wow, and here I thought it was just for a few hours. "How's Renesmee." My daughter.
"She's fine, she's downstairs with Jacob," he seemed uneasy saying that. "And the others."
"Is Heather with her?"
He shook his head just as she came in. "Hello my creation, how you feeling?"
"Fine." I watched as she sat down on the other side of me with one of her smiles. Could what Isabella say be true.
"That's good, I did have to put a lot of venom in you."
Oh right, she kept biting me. "Why did you have to put venom in me?"
She sighed, "When Renesmee was born she took a lot of your Original venom to survive, slowly turning you human. If I didn't put venom in you then you would have turned fully human and died." Staring at her, I gave her a hug. How could Heather possibly want to kill Renesmee? She saved us more than once. She created me. And Isabella said it herself that Heather remembers nothing so there should be no part of her that wants Renesmee dead. After all, Renesmee is not Isabella.
"Woah now, we have more time for this later, don't you want to meet your child?" I nodded, getting up with Edward's help.
I could hear Anabell laughing and then Rosalie and Jacob arguing over something. "Mom, you're awake." Anabell shouted, running up to me and giving me a hug. Ashton walked away from Leah to give me a hug too. "Slept long enough."
We laughed and pulled away when I saw her in Jacob's arm. "She's so big." She did not look like someone born just three days ago. Edward stood next to me. "She is special."
"Indeed she is." I turned back as Heather spoke with fear. She looked at me before blinking. "Being the only half vampire half Original, that is a big deal. Not to mention she is the daughter of the queen." I sighed with relief.
"So she is the princess." Skylar spoke and Heather nodded.
My princess. I wanted to hold her. I reached out when I then noticed Jacob's expression. He seemed not to want to give her to me. I blew it off as I took her away from him. She was so beautiful, so amazing. Looking at her just made everything from before seem like a bad dream. Renesmee look up at me and lifted her hand to touch my cheek, and that's when I saw my face in my mind. "What's happening?"
"Isn't it great mom? Renesmee has my gift except she can project her thoughts into your minds." Anabell explained.
Another gifted child? I watched all of Renesmee's thoughts, catching up from the three days I missed. "She's very intelligent." Carlisle said. I smiled, holding her closer.
"Watch it Jacob," I heard Edward warn. I looked at Jacob as he looked ready to take Renesmee away. "Are you alright Jacob?" Before I could say anything else I stared at his eyes as they stared at Renesmee. It was as if a blind man could see again. "No."
Heather stood in front of me. "Now now Bella, don't want to do anything irrational. Remember you're still holding Renesmee."
"He imprinted on my baby." I hissed at him, hiding Renesmee in my neck. Isabella appeared, laughing. "Calm down Bella."
"Please Bella, it's what you wanted. We can all be like a family now."
"But I didn't think I'd have you as a son-in-law," I mumbled, looking at Renesmee.
"Come on Bella it's not like that, and Nessie…" "Woah woah woah, Nessie?" The once tall wolf seemed like a small kid. "You named my child after the loch ness monster?"
"Well, Renesmee was such a mouthful and I…" "Dude, just shut your mouth." Seth laughed.
"Alright, before Bella goes crazy." Rosalie took Renesmee from me and handed her to Edward. "Rip him apart." She smiled.
I looked back at Jacob as he was in the middle of running to the kitchen with Seth. Coward. "Look Bella, don't be too upset, I can't control these things. Someone back me up here."
Everyone jumped away. "We know better than to stand between Bella's wrath," Jasper chuckled.
"Yeah Jacob, you are just going to have to deal with this yourself." Alice added.
And oh he did.